"He was not very buddy with religion but very moved by the churches". It is with his words that Nicolas Bedos announced on Twitter that a ceremony will take place Thursday June 4 at 2:30 p.m. in the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris VI), to pay a last tribute to his missing father. Thursday May 28 at the age of 85. A ceremony in a neighborhood which he "surveyed with joy".
The comedian and humorist suffered from Alzheimer's disease and unfortunately did not recognize his loved ones during the last days of his life, as revealed by L'Obs. In September 2015, he spoke of his last hour in "We are not lying". He said he wanted to resort to euthanasia.
" I chose my murderer doctor. (...) I would not want to suffer, I would not want to be a burden on those around me, etc. So I would like to choose when I will leave. There are different ways to leave. You can just kill yourself. We can ask a doctor to send us away. Here, I want to leave in beauty, "said the artist who, in one of his sketches, said he did not want to be locked in a box or cremated. He added this message to his four children: " Get rid of it! ”
More seriously, he expressed several wishes before his death. That the square of his childhood in Algiers be named after him. "Around the age of 13, this is where I opened my head by sliding in the flowers, " he smiled. And that of resting in the cemetery of Lumio, in Balagne (Haute-Corse) which he nicely called his "spare Algeria". Guy Bedos will rest there a few kilometers from Michel Rocard, who died in 2016 and whose ashes were buried in Monticello.
In his book, At the time when the campaign is blackening , published in 2017 by Fayard editions, the humorist had mentioned this rapprochement. This communion of spirit. " I learn from television news that Michel Rocard will be cremated, and that his ashes will be buried in Monticello, in Corsica," he wrote . Definitely, our destinies will have crossed to the end, my dear Michel. You know it, my grave awaits me in the cemetery of Lumio, this village that you loved so much. For a bit, I would say to you: "See you soon" ... »